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Author Chan, Albert

Title Chinese Materials in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, 14th-20th Centuries : a Descriptive Catalogue : A Descriptive Catalogue
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (672 pages)
Contents Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication ; Table of Contents ; List of Illustrations; Acknowlegments; Preface; List of Books and Documents; Bibliographical References and Abbreviations; Descriptive Catalogue ; Japonica-Sinica I (1-224); Japonica-Sinica II (1-173); Japonica-Sinica III (1-24); Japonica-Sinica IV (1-30); Indices ; Titles; Printing Houses and Publishers; Names of Places; Subjects; Names of Persons; List of Popes and Jesuit Superiors (1541-1773)
Summary The Jesuit Archives in Rome (Archium Romanum Societatus Iesu) contains books and manuscripts from the Ming (1369-1644) and Ching (1644-1911) dynasties on Chinese history, Chinese and Western philosophy, astronomy and other sciences; volumes by Westerners introducing Christian thought to the Chinese; and works by Chinese Christians comparing what they were taught by the Jesuits with the Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian traditions. Many works deal with the famous Chinese rites controversy. There are also volumes that treat other religious groups such as the Muslims and the Jews. The archive has a
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Subject Jesuits. General Archives.
SUBJECT Jesuits. General Archives fast
Subject Chinese literature -- Bibliography
Chinese literature
Genre/Form Bibliographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315705750
1315705753